pratique

[ pra-teek, prat-ik; French pra-teek ]

noun

1. license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.

pratique

/ præˈtiːk; ˈprætiːk /

noun

1. formal permission given to a vessel to use a foreign port upon satisfying the requirements of local health authorities

Word History and Origins

Origin of pratique¹

1600–10; < French: practice < Medieval Latin practica. See practice

Word History and Origins

Origin of pratique¹

C17: from French, from Medieval Latin practica practice

Example Sentences

Il pratique la natation et est végétarien – c’est la seule cause qu’il intègre dans son travail.

From New York Times

He went on to the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf — with supervision from Roland Barthes and Lucien Goldmann.

From Los Angeles Times

He had enrolled at the École Pratique to avoid serving in France’s war with Algeria.

From Los Angeles Times

Eric Clua, a professor of marine biology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, said the rationale behind shark culls in the past was simple: fewer sharks, fewer attacks.

From New York Times

Valentine Zuber, a historian at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris who specializes in the study of religious tolerance in Europe, said that these two “intellectual and political camps are now at loggerheads.”

From New York Times